No, the '80s were just yesterday. I had already been married six years when the eighties arrived. I was in the navy when the Beatles broke up. I saw Sink The Bismarck and The Longest Day in the theater. I know I'm old, because I remember the sixties. The eighties aren't old.
I'm so old I hated Van Halen because they weren't like the music from my day. I remember when Kenny Loggins was the guy who played second banana to Jim Messina. I remember when the Who did their 25th Anniversary tour, in 1989, and I thought "Wow! It's been a long time! I'm getting old!"
Those who think you're getting old because you were a kid in the eighties, well, I say you're still a kid. But then, when my daughter turned 21 I complained to my dad that I was starting to feel old, and he said "Let me tell you a little secret: people in their seventies don't appreciate hearing children in their fifties whine about feeling old."
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“Never do anything you can't take back.”
—Rocky Russo
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